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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9608816">I think even for Howard it was a romantic appeal that made him create Conan.  Something I would just point out here:1) Lots of people still don't live in cities and there will always probably be people who don't (I doubt we are on a path towards the world being one large sprawling cityscape). Living in a city isn't ubiquitous. There are still people who reside in the county, there are still farmers, there are still small towns. Those are all connected to civilization, but so was Howard. 2) It can be misleading when you see maps that show most people liven in and around around cities (because that last part is very important). I live just outside Boston, only by a few miles, and there is a massive, massive difference between living within the city limits of Boston and outside the limits. I even lived in a City, outside Boston, and there is a huge difference between living in a city, and living in the capital city. Where I live is like a buffer zone. If I go one town to the west, lots of trees and state parks. Even just around the city of Boston you will find places that have a much more rural feel. So I grew up in the Boston area, but I get very disoriented when I actually go into Boston because it is so overstimulating for me, because I am more accustomed to the slower pace in the surrounding communities. A lot of times when people say they live in a city, they are really saying they live in a suburb or even a small town with lots of green space, outside that city. All those dense urban environments are still usually surrounded by areas that are much more sparsely populated and the pace of life in those spaces is radically different. So it isn't like everyone's experience is living in a concrete apartment building in the downtown of a major city. Whole regions of the state I live in are rural (especially as you go west). And in the country there are plenty of rural places as well. But I don't think you even have to live in a rural space to find Conan appealing. And tension of culture between urban and rural environments is something that remains relevant, as I have mentioned before. This. One doesn't have to grow up in the country to be able to appreciate this. If anything, living in or near cities, makes you appreciate the stresses of city life, some of the downside of social interaction in them, and makes a simple man with a sword who holds city life in disdain, somewhat appealing at times as a character.</blockquote>

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